Quotes About Simplicity

The shabbiest tuppeny doll will rejoice a baby's heart for half the year, but your mature gentleman will go yawning his head off at a five-hundred-franc gadget. And why? Because he has lost the soul of childhood.

Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths.

To want nothing. Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for. Just to wander, and to sleep. To let yourself be carried along by the crowds, and the streets. To follow the gutters, the fences, the water's edge. To walk the length of the embankments, to hug the walls. To waste your time. To have no projects, to feel no impatience. To be without desire, or resentment, or revolt.

Ce n'est pas possible d'éplucher des pommes de terre et de gratter des carottes en combinaison.

Human tragedies are always simple when we reconsider them in retrospect.

He had read endless books, he had digested them, pondered over them. Day by day, year after year, he had turned over all the problems of human beings. Yet there were all sorts of simple things he didn't know how to do: he couldn't even walk into an inn and sit down at a table.

Their church was small, just her and Joe and God. They tithed by working to preserve the earth He'd created and the animals that called it home. Only one word was in their gospel, and they relayed it

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it. (Life, March 1, 1968)

This [Ghost Ranch] is my kind of world. The kind of things one sees in cities . . . well, you know, it's better to look out the window at the sage.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

The most wonderful, beautiful things in life are the simple things which we have all forgotten.

dropped in on my old shepherd friend Yani who provided us with some bread and fig cake and a straw hat full of wild strawberries to sustain us.

to bring us a handful of figs from his tree or a few almonds, milky and fresh, which we would crack between the smooth stones on the beach.

The facts of grace are simple: grace always exists, it is always available, it is always good, and it is always victorious. For me, living into grace means trying to act on the basis of these facts. I do not do well at it. My

The pursuit of simplicity seems to have largely evaporated from the scientific scene. In four decades of doing science, I have seen this noble culture yield to one less audacious and more pragmatic.

The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.

Very well. I shall try to think like an idiot.

The woman looked at Gawain silently for a moment, then nodded. "The greatest adventures begin simply," she said.

Es indispensable tomar las cosas más a la ligera, eliminar el dramatismo y optar por la felicidad; crear un ambiente familiar lleno de risas, diversión y un poco de la simple trivialidad cotidiana de la vida.

Agesilaus, the Spartan king, was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale, but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.